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O&O ShutUp10 Portable means you have full control over which comfort functions under Windows 10/11 you wish to use, and you decide when the passing on of your data goes too far. Using a very simple interface, you decide how Windows 10/11 should respect your privacy by deciding which unwanted functions should be deactivated.

Addresses errors 0xC004F211 and 0xC004F213. Open Settings and then Update & Security Go to Activation section Click the Troubleshoot link If you have UAC enabled, click Yes when prompted to do so When the problem detection process completes, select the link saying "I changed hardware on this device recently" Use your credentials and sign in to your linked Microsoft Account Select the device you are currently working on and then click the Activate button Once Windows gets activated, close the…

Want to backup your Start Menu personalized tile arrangement to set it on a fresh Windows install without the hassle of pinning all apps?

Windows 11 brings a slew of new features, some of which have not been well received among users. If you look at the previous iteration, it also had some unwelcome changes such as the Photos app, which replaced the Windows Photo Viewer.The Photos App isn't bad at all, in fact it comes with a built-in Video Editor, and I think it is quite useful. The main reason why people do not like the Photos app is due to its performance.

Whenever you run an app in Windows, you are prompted by User Account Control or UAC to confirm you want to allow that app to make changes to your device. If you find this annoying, you can disable UAC in a few different ways. You can disable or enable UAC from Settings (Control Panel), Group Policy Editor, the registry, or by using the registry files you can download below.

From a privacy point of view, you may want to disable Camera in Windows 10/11. We will review two methods of how it can be done. Almost all modern portable devices come with a camera these days. Laptops and tablets come with webcams and 2-in-1s like Surface come with dual cameras. Windows 10/11 ships with a Camera app for all essential functionality related to capturing video or pictures.

The explorer.exe process is the user shell for Windows, and is used by such items as the desktop, File Explorer, Start menu, notification area, and taskbar. Restarting the explorer.exe process is to stop and start it to effectively refresh explorer.exe. When the explorer.exe process has been stopped (aka: "end task"), you will see a blank black desktop with your mouse pointer showing until explorer.exe has been started again.

System protection is a feature that allows you to undo unwanted system changes by being able to do a System Restore. System Restore enables users, in the event of a problem, to restore their computers to a previous state (restore point) without losing personal data files.